On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
Mostly though, thanks to the Internet and multinational corporations,
godawful business jargon crosses all national borders. Words and
phrases like
Mostly though, thanks to the Internet and multinational corporations,
godawful business jargon crosses all national borders. Words and
phrases like 'onboarding', 'stakeholders', 'mission statements',
'platforms', 'proactive', 'sectors' and pretty much anything
'strategic', for instance.
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:40 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
Terms like strategy, mission statement and stakeholder have
concrete organizational meaning. Yes, they are also often used as part
of marketing copy or organizational copy in ways that are unhelpful,
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
Mostly though, thanks to the Internet and multinational corporations,
godawful business jargon crosses all national borders. Words and
phrases like 'onboarding', 'stakeholders', 'mission statements',
'platforms',
I'd recommend George Orwell's essay on Politics and the English
Language. It's one of the most persuasive arguments to use clear
language I've read.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
We're a multi-lingual movement, and this makes clear English even more
important. If something is
We're a multi-lingual movement, and this makes clear English even more
important. If something is unclear to a native speaker, it's even more
difficult for someone who has English as a second or third language.
I confirm.
Its quite difficult for a non fluent english speaker to be involved in
On 19 February 2012 10:21, Thierry Coudray thierry.coud...@wikimedia.fr wrote:
We're a multi-lingual movement, and this makes clear English even more
important. If something is unclear to a native speaker, it's even more
difficult for someone who has English as a second or third language.
I
On 19/02/2012 5:21 AM, Thierry Coudray wrote:
Thierry
who still not have found a good translation in French for accountability :)
You probably want /imputabilité/ :-)
-- Coren / Marc
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Dear Tom,
I couldn't agree more. And I remember that I understand Amir's blog
entries quite well, in sharp opposition to some other WMF technical
guys' blog entries...
A copy-editor with an eye for newbies, non techies, non native
speakers of English etc. would be a great idea.
Kind regards
Since Wikipedia started in 2001, great effort has been put into
ensuring that it is readable, clear and understandable by visitors.
Good Wikipedia writing is clear, concise, comprehensive and
consistent. Excellent Wikipedia writing is, according to English
Wikipedia's featured article criteria,
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
Commit to clear writing by adopting a policy of copyediting almost
always welcome for chapter wikis, Foundation documents and as close
to everything as possible. There are volunteers in the movement who
happily spend hour
2012/2/18 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com:
Seems like a Catch-22 to me: documents about what we do at the Foundation
are sometimes not plainly understandable, and yet you can't make them
understandable unless you know what it is you're supposed to be describing.
It doesn't have to be
Hi Tom,
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
Since Wikipedia started in 2001, great effort has been put into
ensuring that it is readable, clear and understandable by visitors.
Good Wikipedia writing is clear, concise, comprehensive and
consistent. Excellent
On 18 February 2012 22:33, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Tom,
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
Since Wikipedia started in 2001, great effort has been put into
ensuring that it is readable, clear and understandable by visitors.
Good
On Feb 18, 2012, at 6:27 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
Accountabilities, plural? I can understand accountability, the state
of being accountable to another. But I have no idea what
accountabilities are. Can you collect them like Pokémon cards?
I want a set of those cards. No, I need a set of those
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